Engineering Internship

Summary

Chess.com is a global gaming, technology, and content company focused on helping people play, learn, and enjoy chess. The Engineering Intern will join a multidisciplinary team in Product Engineering or AI/ML Engineering to build chess experiences, optimize systems and data pipelines, develop software and machine learning models, and contribute to technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build features and optimize systems, scaling for a global top 100 website
• Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions
• Contribute to the team knowledge-base
• Optimize data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines
• Develop, train, and deploy ML models, and integrate them into Chess.com products
• Build AI applications powered by LLMs

Skills

• * Chess player
• * Sense of ownership and responsibility
• * Excellent communicator and team player
• * Degree-seeking student currently enrolled at a college or university or equivalent bootcamp
• * Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• * + client side programming languages (HTML, CSS, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin)
• + backend programming languages (Golang/Java/PHP preferred)
• + web application frameworks
• + relational databases (MySQL preferred)
• * Strong math foundation and understanding of traditional ML algorithms
• * Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• * + Python or another programming language (TypeScript/Go/Java preferred)
• + ML libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn or PyTorch
• + LLMs/RAG/context engineering/evals/agentic patterns
• + SQL (BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

Qualifications

Nice to Haves

• * Chess player
• * Sense of ownership and responsibility
• * Excellent communicator and team player
• * Degree-seeking student currently enrolled at a college or university or equivalent bootcamp
• * Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• * + client side programming languages (HTML, CSS, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin)
• + backend programming languages (Golang/Java/PHP preferred)
• + web application frameworks
• + relational databases (MySQL preferred)
• * Strong math foundation and understanding of traditional ML algorithms
• * Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• * + Python or another programming language (TypeScript/Go/Java preferred)
• + ML libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn or PyTorch
• + LLMs/RAG/context engineering/evals/agentic patterns
• + SQL (BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

Benefits

• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!), for applicants who can work in the USA or Canada